Flight attendant forced to hold emergency door closed after ‘drunk’ passenger tries to open it
A flight attendant was forced to hold an emergency exit door shut onboard a Chinese flight over the weekend after an allegedly drunk passenger tried to open it.
Footage shows the female flight attendant with one hand on the plane’s roof and another holding the lever to the emergency exit after a male passenger allegedly tried to pull it open shortly before takeoff from Qingdao, China on Saturday.
“I told him not to open it,” the flight attendant tells a colleague passing through the aisle in Chinese, according to JAM Press.
The male flight attendant then decides to turn his attention to the passenger, and asks, “Sir, did you open this?”
At first, the male passenger looks confused as he looks up at the attendant and starts gesturing at the lever.
“Why did you open it? Didn’t you know it is prohibited to open this kind of thing?” the male flight attendant continues to question him in Chinese, according to JAM Press.
But the passenger just looks down at his cell phone as the male attendant continues his interrogation.
Eventually, though, he admitted that he had been drinking before he tried to grab at the lever, according to JAM Press.
In the end, the flight attendants ask the man and another passenger in the same row to change seats, the footage shows.
The passenger was then allowed to remain on the flight, which continued on to its destination of Harbin, China without incident, according to JAM Press.
The close call was just the latest in a string of drunk and unruly passengers causing a scene onboard a plane.
Last month, a “drunk” and “extremely violent” passenger on a plane from Dubai was caught on camera headbutting a flight attendant, causing crew members to tackle him and restrain him with cable ties.
On March 1, a United Airlines flight traveling from London Heathrow to Newark Liberty International Airport was also forced to make an emergency landing in Bangor, Maine after two supposedly drunk passengers who “became disruptive.”
Video posted on X by Jewish news service Kol Haolom shows uniformed officers on board the aircraft lifting an unidentified man out of his seat as his fellow passengers cheer and applaud.
The plane was then able to continue on to Newark Liberty Airport without incident, a spokesperson for the airline told The Post.
